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Electronics hobbyists enjoy playing with the projects.some people start a garage at home. For making any new invention you don't need any big laboratory. you can make your home a LAB.to work you just need a "multimeter". I have been working on some projects.At the beginning stage i made so many disasters in my room.I blasted so many components(one day i burnt my bed).what ever we do we enjoy that.So i just wanted to share some of my work with you.

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Thursday, 3 July 2014

Passive InRrared sensors:

This sensor senses the bodies that emitting IR radiation and are in motion. there are several types of PIR sensors are available in the market. most common types are these TWO..

TYPE.1: with one potentiometer

This Pot is used to set the time of out put signal stays at logic high on object detection width. this sensor's sensitivity can't be altered. It produces a 3.3V "logic high".

TYPE.2:with two potentiometers

The device has two variable resistors that you can adjust to tweak the performance of the module.

The first one (left-hand side on the photo) determines the sensitivity of the device. The default setting is usually 50%.

The second control (right-hand side on the photo and usually marked “time” on the PCB) allows you to adjust the amount of time the output pin stays at 3.3V (high) when it is triggered by movement. This can be set from a few seconds to 200 seconds. The default setting is usually a few seconds.

WORKING:

But the operation of the both sensors is same. This PIR sensor doesn't respond for the stationary objects. Instead it senses the IR bodies in motions(hot materials and living objects). This sensor accepts DC voltage of 5V.

NOTE:

Most of the time pin configuration will be printed on the sensor . But some sensors available with in in India are not describing pin configurations properly. But the standard notation of pin will be like all ways middle pin will be output. so if you identify the GROUND then remaining pin will be VCC.It is very simple. Most of these sensors are made of using BISS0001(16 pin DIL package). 7th pin of this IC is GND. So take a multimeter and check for short circuit test and beep sound. then it will be your sensor ground and opposite side pin will be VCC

As the sensor provides 3.3V signal it may be little difficult to interface with microcontrollers working at Vcc=5V(most 8 bit hobby controllers like AT89S51). At the same time it will be easy to interface with low powered microcontrollers like LPC2148. You better check your microcontroller Logic voltage levels.

Actually i interfaced this sensor to ATmega8 MCU which can detect even 3.3 volt logical signal. So i successfully connected this PIR sensor to the ATmega8 microcontroller.